A Quick Quiz On Whether You Should Quit Your Job

Are you ready to quit your job? The Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com offers an online test to help you suss out your feelings and options.

Based on the work of Les Krantz in his book The Job Finder's Guide, the five minute (tops) quiz asks true / false questions such as "When you are not at work, you seldom think about your job." When I plugged in my state of mind five years ago when I was working for a large media company, the analysis was "You need to make a real evaluation of your current situation" -- which is not very helpful, although it was certainly true at the time!

But it does then provide some additional questions you should ask yourself to clarify your thoughts, so for the small amount of time invested, it has some value.

The Journal has other resources for career changers. In a guide that's only available to WSJ.com subscribers, they point to these free articles:

• Four Red Flags That Signal It's Time to Quit a Job
• Five Almost Painless Ways to Make A Career Change (if you call "return to school" "almost painless" ...)
• and the big one, How to Switch Careers in Midlife. Their steps: assess, get help, learn about yourself, research, and network.

The last is the most helpful, although anyone serious about making a major change should look at a book like the excellent In Transition rather than these somewhat glib articles.